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Daily Passenger Entries by Metro SP Station

Source: R/data.R
station_daily.Rd

Daily passenger entries at each station in the São Paulo metro system. Data covers January 2012 through 2026 for Lines 4 and 5 (Insper Dataverse), and 2020 through 2026 for Lines 1, 2, 3, and 15 (METRO SP transparency portal).

Usage

station_daily

Format

A data frame with the following columns:

date

Date of observation (Date).

line_number

Metro line number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 15 (integer).

station_name

Full station name (character).

passengers

Daily passenger entries (numeric).

line_name

English name of the metro line (character).

line_name_pt

Portuguese name of the metro line (character).

station_code

Three-letter station abbreviation used internally by METRO SP (character). NA for Lines 4 and 5 (Dataverse source).

year

Calendar year (integer).

Source

Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (METRO SP). https://transparencia.metrosp.com.br/dataset/demanda

Details

Station coverage and date range by line:

  • Line 1 (Azul/Blue): 23 stations, 2020–2026 (METRO SP portal).

  • Line 2 (Verde/Green): 14 stations, 2020–2026 (METRO SP portal).

  • Line 3 (Vermelha/Red): 18 stations, 2020–2026 (METRO SP portal).

  • Line 4 (Amarela/Yellow): January 2012–2026 (Insper Dataverse); station_code is NA.

  • Line 5 (Lilás/Lilac): August 2018–2026 (Insper Dataverse); station_code is NA.

  • Line 15 (Prata/Silver): 10 stations in 2020, 11 from 2021 onward (Jardim Colonial added), 2020–2026 (METRO SP portal).

Some stations appear on multiple lines (e.g., Ana Rosa on Lines 1 and 2, Paraíso on Lines 1 and 2, Sé on Lines 1 and 3). These are recorded separately for each line.

Days beyond the last published data point for each line are trimmed during assembly; interior NAs (e.g. operational outages) are preserved.

Data vintage

This dataset is a fixed snapshot, current through July 2026. It ships with the package so examples, vignettes, and offline analysis always have data to hand. The snapshot moves only when the column schema changes or a release deliberately carries new data, not when new months are published upstream.

METRO SP publishes on an irregular schedule and revises already-published years, so the numbers here will drift from the source over time. Freshly rebuilt data is published on every pipeline run at https://github.com/viniciusoike/metrosp/releases.

See also

station_averages for monthly weekday averages, passengers_entrance for monthly line-level totals.